I'm thinking it's inspired by Margaret Atwood's books. The government is slowly taking control over people. Red or blue. We're being manipulated into what we think about. Controlling who we are. People stare at a screen & pay endless bills. We're fucked.
I'm thinking it's inspired by Margaret Atwood's books. The government is slowly taking control over people. Red or blue. We're being manipulated into what we think about. Controlling who we are. People stare at a screen & pay endless bills. We're fucked.
To me, this song is for every girl/women/mother who needs to hear that they're beautiful.
To me, this song is for every girl/women/mother who needs to hear that they're beautiful.
As a fellow Capricorn I really vibe with these lyrics. Capricorns are said to be masters of reinventing themselves to reach the top of “the mountain” and eventually “the sun”, IYKYK. I have turned away from so many things and become so many different people on the way. For a Capricorn “I will disappear” is a warning. That’s how we say “You’re not headed my direction and I can waist my time on you instead of my dreams.” Then we’re gone.
As a fellow Capricorn I really vibe with these lyrics. Capricorns are said to be masters of reinventing themselves to reach the top of “the mountain” and eventually “the sun”, IYKYK. I have turned away from so many things and become so many different people on the way. For a Capricorn “I will disappear” is a warning. That’s how we say “You’re not headed my direction and I can waist my time on you instead of my dreams.” Then we’re gone.
In the video we se a bunch of scenery about everyone digging and working tirelessly to uncover something great. Some fall off to the wayside in the process. Then some come attempting to steal what’s been unearthed. Definitely Capricorn vibes, excellently expressed video, solid lyrics.
Bourbon. Definitely Bourbon…
Bourbon. Definitely Bourbon…
I always wondered if this was DH taking a jab at JO.
I always wondered if this was DH taking a jab at JO.
Is it possible these two guys had a drug lab? Seems like whenever they mention “on the hill” it’s drug related.
Is it possible these two guys had a drug lab? Seems like whenever they mention “on the hill” it’s drug related.
This song is definitely more about Frances instead of Kurt, more like a song to help her when Frances is feeling down to be reminded that her mother and father always has her back, even when he's not here.
This song is definitely more about Frances instead of Kurt, more like a song to help her when Frances is feeling down to be reminded that her mother and father always has her back, even when he's not here.
I like coming to this website to see the general public's misunderstanding of some of my favorite songs. I was learning this on piano and I looked up the lyrics and then I thought wait... I gotta see how people are going to project their own life onto the song lol or mishear the lyrics. And I'm not disappointed. The highest voted comment is mishearing the lyrics even though he very clearly says woods and trees not words and retreat. Then goes on to overthink the lyrics.
I like coming to this website to see the general public's misunderstanding of some of my favorite songs. I was learning this on piano and I looked up the lyrics and then I thought wait... I gotta see how people are going to project their own life onto the song lol or mishear the lyrics. And I'm not disappointed. The highest voted comment is mishearing the lyrics even though he very clearly says woods and trees not words and retreat. Then goes on to overthink the lyrics.
The song is about exactly what he describes. What if the world is not material fixture but your own dream. Like a lucid 80 year dream. This is literally a real possibility and something that is much more common to ponder and actually believe in the Eastern parts of the planet. So it's very well worn thematic territory which is why it's easy to tell what the song is about once you know about it. Philosophically you might call this Idealism or Solopsism.
Anyway, materialist worldview says everything is made out of particles and that matter exists first, then consciousness comes second. But the problem is that particles don't exist they only appear to. What really exists is an infinite energy field that makes ALL matter by way of intense vibration. Not vibration of particles, the vibrating itself makes the energy field appear to you as a particle. But nothing is really separate. Which begs the question, who or what is doing the vibrating? Who is making things vibrate the way in which they are? Who holds it all together, creates it in real time and maintains it?
Well, it could be You. Or "me". But is there a difference? It's all part of the dream, the perception. Who is the perceiver? God? What if you're God but you forgot? What if you're the One Being? A One without a Second?
This is the basis for every religion but truth gets garbled and repeated and mixed up and confused. People in Jesus' time weren't ready for that kind of information. Too deep and they wouldn't understand. Have to know your audience, right?
Alvin Levon Tostig born sometime around 1934? Served in Korea (1950-1953), wounded. Young man, saw horrors, killed other young men. He was badly wounded himself, prays: “Please God, save me. I will be a good man. Please God. Don’t let me die.” And he makes it home. Alvin wants to put all that trauma behind him. He starts to use his middle name (or changes his name). Because Levon is derived from Hebrew, meaning “heart”. The biblical Levon is a wise and just leader. (Unlike the men who sent Alvin to...
Alvin Levon Tostig born sometime around 1934?
Served in Korea (1950-1953), wounded.
Young man, saw horrors, killed other young men. He was badly wounded himself, prays: “Please God, save me. I will be a good man. Please God. Don’t let me die.” And he makes it home.
Alvin wants to put all that trauma behind him. He starts to use his middle name (or changes his name). Because Levon is derived from Hebrew, meaning “heart”. The biblical Levon is a wise and just leader. (Unlike the men who sent Alvin to war, when Alvin was just a pawn in their military schemes.) “Wears his war wound like a crown,” like the biblical Jesus.
(this bit is about Alvin) And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man And he shall be Levon In tradition with the family plan And he shall be Levon And he shall be a good man He shall be Levon
Jesus Tostig born c 1955? Alvin/Levon has been home for a while.
(this bit is about Jesus ) He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day When the New York Times said "God is dead And the War's begun" Alvin Tostig has a son today
(“God is Dead” headline 1/9/66 LBJ escalates Vietnam war 1963-1969) . When Jesus is born, Levon is overcome with love for this innocent infant, pure and undamaged as Levon himself was before the war. Jesus is a pauper, because Levon is painfully poor. But Levon pores his soul into making money to provide for his son.
"Up Up and Away" released July 1967: The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky For we can fly (we can fly) Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky For we can fly (we can fly)
Jesus hears the music of the times, thinks about leaving. He’s blowing up balloons on the porch and singing along with the 5th Dimension.
Levon has PTSD. Tries to be a good man. Tries to be a good family man. Knows he has to provide for his kid. But he probably bursts out with aggression and hostility that Jesus cannot understand. Levon works hard to be in a neighborhood where the middle class white kids go to a good school (the best, thinks Levon), not the inner city schools that are less likely to have good opportunities for Jesus.
Like most kids, Jesus doesn’t understand his father. Resents the choices his dad makes. Jesus dreams of leaving all of it. Levon will die…eventually.
Elton John released “Levon” November 29, 1971. Bernie Taupin wrote it, therefore, no later than sometime in 1971. The song was influenced by everything that happened politically, musically, emotionally. I’ve just pulled up a few examples and ideas.
~ Mike is addressing himself ~
~ Mike is addressing himself ~
This song is about never learning from your mistakes, and the absurdity of always blaming everything except yourself for your problems - "and let the suit keep wearing you".
This song is about never learning from your mistakes, and the absurdity of always blaming everything except yourself for your problems - "and let the suit keep wearing you".
Specifically, wanting to make friends but instead repeatedly making enemies, and then making things worse instead of breaking bread.
Specifically, wanting to make friends but instead repeatedly making enemies, and then making things worse instead of breaking bread.
Ironically, this all comes of feeling insecure and defensive about being judged and made an enemy of, prompting one to 'pre-emptively' strike first, thus making another enemy, and in the process self-sabotaging and making an enemy of yourself, instead of looking out for yourself.
Ironically, this all comes of feeling insecure and defensive about being judged and made an enemy of, prompting one to 'pre-emptively' strike first, thus making another enemy, and in the process self-sabotaging and making an enemy of yourself, instead of looking out for yourself.
It was never about the enemy.
Unless, that is, you have come to the conclusion that you've only ever had one enemy, and that enemy is oneself.
You couldn't break bread with yourself. You are your own worst enemy.
You were probably the last person who figured it out.